Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it. On March 18, two researchers described the fastest method ever discovered for multiplying two ...

An area model is a rectangular grid that can help you solve multiplication problems. The process is similar to how you find the area of a rectangle. Two-digit numbers can be partitioned into smaller ...

In this method the smaller number is partitioned (broken down into tens and units). \({27}\) is broken down into \({10}\), \({10}\) and \({7}\). The method of partitioning into tens, simplifies the ...